What's the BEST mega pixels for a Digital Camera ?

Question

What's the BEST mega pixels for a Digital Camera ?

Answer 1

megapixels don't really matter unless you are printing pictures the size of a small car.

For Point and Shoot cameras, I suggest nothing more than 14. 10 would be the best, since the sensor is not TOO terribly crowded.



Canon Nikon Fuji Sony and Panasonic make pretty decent Point and shoot cameras. I suggest you look at those brands

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Answer 2

yep

Answer 3

The more megapixels the more pixels per inch which means the more detail in your photos, hence, the sharper your photos will be. But it really depends what you are going to use the pics for. If you're just going to print them out as 4 x 6 shots or share them on a web page, then a 1MP camera really is all you need. If you want to print out bigger than that, then the more megapixels you have, the better. I started off with 1.2, moved up to 5 and now have an 8 megapixel camera. At 5 and especially so at 8 I can get prints made POSTER size - 24 x 36 - and the resolution still looks great. With the difference in price really not that vast between the megapixels I think what you should more consider is what's important to YOU in a camera's features. Some have really great super macro (shooting super close). Others have more zoom than others. Others have image stabilization. While others have the ability to add other lenses like an SLR camera can. Bear in mind that the more megapixels a camera is then the more kilobytes a pic file will be. So make sure you have enough hard drive space on your PC to save all these pictures. Also keep in mind that since these pictures are greater in size the less pictures will fit on a picture card - the little disk that goes into the camera where images are saved. For example, where a 32MB card was plenty of space for my old camera, I now have a 1GB card for the new one. Thankfully, though, these cards have gone WAY down in price. I think I paid about a FOURTH the price for the new card than I did for the smaller card a few years ago! The cameras themselves have plummeted in price as well. I paid $599 years and years ago for my 1.2 megapixel Kodak camera whereas I picked up my Olympus Stylus 800 (8 megapixel) on sale last year for only $249!

Answer 4

Canon brand is the best. I am a fan of Canon

I love my Canon PowerShot SX200IS

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I think it is an excellent choice if you want a compact camera with many functions and an excellent optical zoom. it takes great pictures in different ways you handle. 12.1-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality poster-size prints.It has HD movie shooting capability plus HDMI output. It is small enough to take everywhere,

Answer 5

Megapixels don't matter.



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Answer 6

My usual recommendation for decent all around P&S camera is the SD1400 - consumerreports.org agrees and it is one of their picks as well. Currently Amazon has marked down the camera to a very nice 149 http://amzn.to/gLwEqb

Answer 7

Canon and Nikon are the best camera brands, I would look for a 5-8 MP camera by one of the two. That is a good size for printing and Facebook-quality photos. 10 or more is really unnecessary for a first camera.

Answer 8

All those are good brands. Kodak is known for their ease of use. Walmart had a really good Sony for around 100 today. Most people use their digital cameras for 4x6 prints, so anything over 5 megapixels is fine.

Answer 9

If you want sonething that you can just drop into your purse them these compacts would be the best. They all have enough manual controls to satisfy even some pro's.



Canon S95

Panasonic LX3 or LX5

Canon G11 or G12 (g12 even has HD video)



There is another option for you though if you dont care about the price. These cameras are compacts that has interchangable lenses. i would say that these are the closest thing to an in betweener for compacts and dslr's.



Sony NEX 3 and NEX 5

Panasonic GF1

Olympus E-P1 E-P2 OR E-PL1



If you want specific reviews for each one of thwe cameras listed all you need to do is to go to www.dpreview.com/ and then do a search on them

Answer 10

canon without a doubt